Psychoanalysis and Hidden Narrative in Film

Reading the Symptom

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
Cover of the book Psychoanalysis and Hidden Narrative in Film by Trevor C. Pederson, Taylor and Francis
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Trevor C. Pederson ISBN: 9781351392280
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: October 25, 2018
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Trevor C. Pederson
ISBN: 9781351392280
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: October 25, 2018
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

Psychoanalysis and Hidden Narrative in Film proposes a way of constructing hidden psychological narratives of popular film and novels. Instead of offering interpretations of classic films, Trevor C. Pederson recognizes that the psychoanalytic tradition began with making sense of the seemingly inconsequential. Here he turns his attention to popular films like Joel Schumacher's The Lost Boys (1987). While masterworks like Psycho (1960) are not the object of interpretation, Hitchcock’s film is used as a skeleton key. The revelation that Norman Bates’ character had been his mother all along, suggests a framework of reading a film as having symptom characters who are excised to create a latent plot. The symptom character's behavior or inter-relations are then transcribed to an ego character. This is a shift in the tradition of literary doubling from hermeneutic intuition to a formal methodology that generates data for the unconscious. 

Pederson continues the project of unifying competing schools into a single model of mind and offers clinical examples from his own practice for all its terms. Psychodynamic techniques that emphasize the importance of working with the body, the id, and the ubiquity of repetition are introduced. A return to Freud’s structural theory, in which complexes are anchored in the stages of superego development, is used to carefully plot and explain the social nature of the superego and its relation to authority in society (secondary narcissism) and the otherworldly (primary narcissism). Discrete phases of superego development and their ties to both the social and the id revive the grand promises of classical psychoanalysis to link with every field in the humanities. 

Psychoanalysis and Hidden Narrative in Film will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists as well as scholars of film studies and literature interested in using a psychoanalytic approach and ideas in their work.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Psychoanalysis and Hidden Narrative in Film proposes a way of constructing hidden psychological narratives of popular film and novels. Instead of offering interpretations of classic films, Trevor C. Pederson recognizes that the psychoanalytic tradition began with making sense of the seemingly inconsequential. Here he turns his attention to popular films like Joel Schumacher's The Lost Boys (1987). While masterworks like Psycho (1960) are not the object of interpretation, Hitchcock’s film is used as a skeleton key. The revelation that Norman Bates’ character had been his mother all along, suggests a framework of reading a film as having symptom characters who are excised to create a latent plot. The symptom character's behavior or inter-relations are then transcribed to an ego character. This is a shift in the tradition of literary doubling from hermeneutic intuition to a formal methodology that generates data for the unconscious. 

Pederson continues the project of unifying competing schools into a single model of mind and offers clinical examples from his own practice for all its terms. Psychodynamic techniques that emphasize the importance of working with the body, the id, and the ubiquity of repetition are introduced. A return to Freud’s structural theory, in which complexes are anchored in the stages of superego development, is used to carefully plot and explain the social nature of the superego and its relation to authority in society (secondary narcissism) and the otherworldly (primary narcissism). Discrete phases of superego development and their ties to both the social and the id revive the grand promises of classical psychoanalysis to link with every field in the humanities. 

Psychoanalysis and Hidden Narrative in Film will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists as well as scholars of film studies and literature interested in using a psychoanalytic approach and ideas in their work.

More books from Taylor and Francis

Cover of the book Perestroika at the Crossroads by Trevor C. Pederson
Cover of the book The Other Empire by Trevor C. Pederson
Cover of the book World Yearbook of Education 1965 by Trevor C. Pederson
Cover of the book Revival: Efficiency Methods (1917) by Trevor C. Pederson
Cover of the book Environmental Pollution and the Media by Trevor C. Pederson
Cover of the book Developing Early Years Practice by Trevor C. Pederson
Cover of the book Re-Locating the Sounds of the Western by Trevor C. Pederson
Cover of the book First-Person Anonymous by Trevor C. Pederson
Cover of the book Pointing by Trevor C. Pederson
Cover of the book Growth Clusters in European Metropolitan Cities by Trevor C. Pederson
Cover of the book Myth and Violence in the Contemporary Female Text by Trevor C. Pederson
Cover of the book Psychology GCSE Revision Guide for Edexcel by Trevor C. Pederson
Cover of the book The Motor Car Industry in Coventry Since the 1890's by Trevor C. Pederson
Cover of the book Peace and War by Trevor C. Pederson
Cover of the book Criminal Law by Trevor C. Pederson
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy